Angus Miln

Career

Angus is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading venture capital lawyers, with his work frequently spanning international borders. He advises many of the world’s top venture capital, growth equity, and public equity/crossover investors in the tech and life sciences sectors, including many of Europe’s most exciting high-growth companies, throughout their life cycles, including formation, ongoing counselling, financings, international expansion, M&A, scaling towards M&A and liquidity transactions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. His M&A practice is predominantly sell-side and cross-border focused.

Angus sits on the advisory board of IQ Capital, a dedicated European deep tech venture capital firm with a rich history of supporting founders through to acquisition by some of the world’s largest tech companies, including Apple, Meta, Google, Siemens, Qualcomm and Oracle. He also sits on the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Technical Committee. In 2023, he advised the BVCA on revising its standardised model documents for Series A venture funding rounds. As part of a four-lawyer task force, he also advised the UK government and HM Treasury on structuring and establishing the Future Fund for startups during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clients commend Angus for his exceptional negotiation skills, astute commercial judgment and meticulous attention to detail.

He speaks Italian fluently, having lived, studied and worked in Italy extensively over the last 35+ years.